Gideon Burton, Conventional Scholarship as "Legacy System" and Open Access as "Middleware", Academic Evolution, April 7, 2009.

Cameron Neylon, Open Data, Open Source, Open Process: Open Research, Science in the open, April 2, 2009.

Mike Jackson, et al., The Evolution of Geospatial Technology Calls for Changes in Geospatial Research, Education and Government Management, Directions Magazine, April 6, 2009.

Helicos BioSciences Releases Transcriptome Sequencing (RNA-Seq) Datasets on Open Access Web Site, press release, April 6, 2009. See also our past post on Helicos.

Robin Green, et al., Warwick Research Archive Project: Final Report, report to JISC, March 25, 2009.

Kevin Davies, The Bourne Commendation: Open Access Evangelist Wins 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award, Bio-IT World, April 6, 2009. See also our past posts on Bourne and the Benjamin Franklin Award.

Ben Sheffner, District Court: restoration of copyright in public domain foreign works violates First Amendment, Copyrights & Campaigns, April 3, 2009. See also coverage and commentary by Groklaw, Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and Techdirt. Update. See also coverage and commentary by Kevin Smith and Ars Technica.

Nanette Asimov, Obama taps South Bay community college chief, San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2009.

Marisa Ramirez, CSU Endorsement of SCOAP3 Initiative, Crossing the Chasm, April 6, 2009.

Xavier Bosch, A reflection on open-access, citation counts, and the future of scientific publishing, Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis , March 31, 2009.  Accessible only to subscribers, at least at least so far.  There is no abstract.

Thomas David Scheiding, Explaining the inability of economists to practice what they preach: the funding of the American Economic Review with author charges, Journal of Economic Methodology, March 2009. See also this OA preprint.